Antonio Conte: Tottenham boss hits out at 'selfish' players after throwing away two-goal lead at Southampton

Furious Tottenham boss Antonio Conte has hit out at his "selfish players" for not wanting to play "under pressure" in an extraordinary post-match rant after they threw away a two-goal lead at bottom side Southampton.

Spurs led 3-1 at Saints with 16 minutes to go and looked on course to move third, but they conceded twice late on as James Ward-Prowse's stoppage-time penalty rescued a 3-3 draw for the home side.

He added in his post-match press conference, which lasted 10 minutes: "We are 11 players that go into the pitch. I see selfish players, I see players that don't want to help each other and don't put their heart [in]."

Tottenham's collapse at St Mary's caps off a miserable March for the club who were dumped out of both the FA Cup and the Champions League earlier this month to leave them trophyless since 2008.

Asked why it is happening in his post-match press conference, the Italian responded: "Because they are used to it here, they are used to it. They don't play for something important, yeah.

"They don't want to play under pressure, they don't want to play under stress. It is easy in this way. Tottenham's story is this.

"Twenty years there is the owner and they never won something but why? The fault is only for the club, or for every manager that stay here.

"You risk to disrupt the figure of the manager and to protect the other situation in every moment.

"Until now I try to hide the situation but now, no, because I repeat, I don't want to see what I have seen today because this is unacceptable and also unacceptable for the fans.

"They follow us, pay for their ticket and to see the team another time, to have this type of performance is unacceptable. We have to think a lot about this."